Science & Technology Policy
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The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
$17.95 Add to cartPrivacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and di
- Author: Citron, Danielle Keats
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066091
- Language: English
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Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
$19.95 Read moreThe Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state has become the most toxic site in the Western Hemisphere, yet most Americans are in the dark about the damage their government’s nuclear obsession h
- Author: Frank, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598283
- Language: English
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The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
$28.95 Add to cartA spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it’s cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years.
More than any other technology, cars have transformed American- Author: Appleyard, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362304
- Language: English
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CUI Informed: The definitive guide to the United States Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information Program
$99.99 Add to cartBased on lessons learned as a result of the 9/11 attacks, the United States Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information (“CUI”) program fundamentally reshapes the way the Federal Government ident
- Series: Cui Informed
- Author: Goepel, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989103720
- Language: English
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Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy
$27.95 Add to cartThe path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies
Technology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies–Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google–have built i- Author: Kemp, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1639080619
- Language: English
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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
$31.98 Add to cartWhen rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders.
Only the electricity customers will be surprised.
Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfor
- Author: Angwin, Meredith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 19, 2020
- ISBN10: 0989119084
- Language: English
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
$19.95 Add to cartIn this far-reaching foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-author Avis Lang examine how the methods and too
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357465
- Language: English
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AI Needs You: How We Can Change Ai’s Future and Save Our Own
$24.95 Add to cartA humanist manifesto for the age of AI
Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what–and who–this technology- Author: Harding, Verity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0691244871
- Language: English
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The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised
$38.00 Add to cartDiscover the surprising case for how conservatism can help us achieve the epic sci-fi future we were promised.
America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from cur- Author: Pethokoukis, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1546005544
- Language: English
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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
$19.65 Add to cartWhen rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders.
Only the electricity customers will be surprised.
Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unf
- Author: Angwin, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 23, 2020
- ISBN10: 1735358002
- Language: English
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The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America’s military might.
For generations of Americans, our country has been- Author: Brose, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 031653367X
- Language: English
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Bridle, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290424
- Language: English
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The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America’s military might.
For generations of Americans, our country has been- Author: Brose, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 031653353X
- Language: English
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Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report
$18.99 Read moreThis powerful report on what went wrong–and right–with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
Our national le- Author: Crisis Group, Covid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703804
- Language: English
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Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
$23.00 Add to cartA radical and timely proposal for reinvigorating transformative scientific discovery.
So rich was the scientific harvest of the early 20th century that it transformed entire industries and economies.- Author: Braben, Donald W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0578675919
- Language: English
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The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartA spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it’s cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years.
More than any other technology, cars have transformed American- Author: Appleyard, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364668
- Language: English
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Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–And What to Do about It
$28.00 Read moreThe inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless–and how we can fight back–from the acclaimed author of… [more below]
- Author: Ahmari, Sohrab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593443462
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
$30.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental g- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297067
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
$30.00 Read more“Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and–for better or worse–necessary reading.” –Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem
An entertaining account of the philosophy an- Author: Shapiro, Scott J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0374601178
- Language: English
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
$31.99 Add to cartNamed one of NPR’s Best Books of 2023
Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka’s work at recodingamerica.us. “The book I
Named one of Ezra Klein’s “Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023,” The New York Times- Author: Pahlka, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250266777
- Language: English
